Wednesday 23 May 2012
Legendary television journalist Gil Noble, passed to the other side April 5. And as producer and host of the beloved Like It Is, he took with him an awareness and love of the African Diaspora that I do not expect to see on mainstream television again. Gil Noble was not in pursuit of the...
April 5, 2012 – Forensic experts have confirmed the obvious in the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida-— that the terrified voice repeatedly screaming for help was that of the teenager Martin and not the gunman George Zimmerman. And yet Zimmerman has not been arrested for hunting Trayvon down and shooting him dead....
Listening to Trayvon Martin’s extended terrorized screams for help that can be heard in the background of a 911 caller, as Zimmerman tracked him and cornered him, or Ramarley Graham cowering in a corner of the bathroom while a policeman stood and shot him, made real the understanding that even now, in 2012, an...
It is acknowledged that legacies and attitudes toward life are carried on through families and down through the generations. And those persons now in their eighties and nineties can tell stories that their parents and grandparents told them about the lynchings and the terror and the days after slavery. The other side of those...
How African-Americans are being used so far in this election season should be a cause for instruction on the depth of the situation we’re in. The Republicans are using racist themes and buzzwords as a full-throated rallying cry to bring their troops out, while the Democrats share a love that dare not speak its...
If you’re not apprehensive about the candidates running for the Republican nomination, then you haven’t been paying attention. All talk about being in a post-racial society has to be seen now as hopelessly naïve and dangerous to health and liberty. Former Congressman Rick Santorum got the ball rolling when he said he didn’t want...
The smile of the ebullient second place winner of the Republican Caucus in Iowa, former Senator Rick Santorum, is the front for a dark streak in the American consciousness that makes the skin crawl when you think for a moment of what it’s done in slavery times and after that. And when he tells...
Gil Noble’s Like It Is was the institutional memory of African-American people. Noble had a Pan-African understanding of the world and worked tirelessly for the education and uplifting of African people, particularly those here in the States. Since Noble’s illness, The Walt Disney-owned WABC-TV has substituted something they call Here and Now. The last...
Last week we reported that Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., former senior minister of Riverside Church, has embarked on his next chapter as the Harry Emerson Fosdick Distinguished Professor of Union Theological Seminary (UTS) and is launching a national ministry of preaching and spiritual renewal. Our Time Press spoke with Dr. Forbes about...
The video images of police officers pepper spraying like weeds students sitting with locked arms at UC Davis is only the latest example of how it doesn’t matter whether it is China, Egypt, New York or any of the 18 cities with Occupy Movements where Homeland Security is reported to be coordinating police crackdowns...
